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Greenacre County - Psuedo WIP

Hi there, long time lurker, first time poster. I register a few months back to pick up some tips and thought I'd share my first finished map. It's marked down as 'Psuedo-WIP' because I'm a devil for going back and fiddling with things, so it'll probably change a little before too long.

This is my map of Greenacre county, which made use of a few of the tutorials, most notably the compass wheel tutorial for GIMP, which I adapted a bit for photoshop.

The map is a little sparse, but that's to be expected with farmland I suppose, and I'm not 100% happy with the forests, but I'm still quite pleased overall.

Well first off... Welcome Aboard! Be sure to introduce yourself in the Introductoru Forum.

The mountain symbol is nice, but you should try and get a couple more and mix them up a bit. The forest is a bit 'different', it almost looks like torn edged paper than trees... there is at least 1 or 2 tutorials on doing had-drawn trees in the forums, might be worth looking into if you haven't already.

Since you posted a map in your first official post, I dub thee newly repped *bonk*

Nice hand-drawn map

I really don't have anything new to offer beyond what has already been said and suggested other than the sparseness doesn bother me a bit. Understanding it is farmland, have you thought about "breaking it up" a bit by adding defined fields, hedgerows, secondary roads, etc.

That's a great first map. I'd be careful with your forest edges on either side of the road. At the moment they jar against the outer edges of the forest (which are very nice indeed). I'm nbot sure you really need the drop shadow on the inside of the river.

However these are small issues on a very nice map. Welcome the to guild!